Title Pending Until I Have More Energy

My best friend got me this book for Christmas, with a card that
said, “I have no idea what this is going to be about or how good it will be,
but I know you like cats and thought the title was hilarious.”

I read this book in one afternoon since it’s very short, and
I have to say I was not so impressed. I think this had at least a little more
potential than what it actually lived up to, but it felt like a mess for most
of it.

But here are my highlights:

My favorite line: “ ‘To be a meat eater, you have to be able
to look at a cow or a chicken or even a fish for that matter. You have to be
able to look them straight in the eye and be able to say ‘I just ate your daddy.’
If you can do that with a clear conscience, then you will have no problem
defending your carnivorous ways. I’m just not that guy.’” ~Hell’s Angel (p. 65)
This sums up my feelings about vegetarianism very well.

What I did like:

There were some really funny anecdotes. They were spread
out, but there were parts that were laugh out loud funny. (My favorite was the
Player Ball, which had nothing to do with the cat).

The ending was really sweet when she finally gets Cleo back
(I feel like this is not a spoiler since she’s pictured with him on the cover
and the title includes her saying she found him.).

You can tell that Gina Gershon genuinely loves animals, from
her childhood pets to the cat she is currently looking for.

A portion of the proceeds from the sales of the book go to
animal rescues. I think this made up for a lot.

What I didn’t like:

There were several errors that should have been caught by an
editor. Examples were sentences with subject verb disagreement and changing
tense in the middle of a story, or even in the middle of a sentence. This was
very distracting.

The first half jumped around to so much that was completely
irrelevant to the book. As I mentioned before, some of these stories were
funny, but they could have been put in order so that at least if they were
irrelevant, they’d make sense.

Speaking of not making sense… I was aware that there was supposed
to be a psychic and other strange ideas to find a cat in this book. Some points
in the book make you question if she was drugged and her cat was there the
entire time.

All in all, I don’t think I could recommend this book to
anyone. I really wanted to like it and while I was able to finish it, and I was
satisfied by the ending, it just wasn’t something I’d tell someone else to
read.